0:01 Is this a drone shot or a chopper shot? Can’t tell but most likely a chopper shot. In winter? What’s funny is that there’s no shipping traffic visible, and this is daytime, so they must have ‘Shopped out all the vessels but left in the wake pattern waves you can still see. So this all looks a little freaky to me. Also, as in Disney’s Big Hero Six (about which more anon), there’s no Golden Gate Bridge center divider here, so that dates this shot a bit. Perhaps it’s from the CBS vault or something.

0:12That ain’t Frisco. Oh, the only person / name I recognize in this whole deal is Jeremy Piven, but if you asked me about him I wouldn’t be able to tell you anything else about him. Like, oh yeah, he starred in that thing – my memory would need to be jostled. (Sad!) And yes, this show is on the CBS and I know that that’s Channel 5 and I know that I could turn on my TV and watch (like there’d be a 99% chance my rabbit ears would be able to tune in, barring serious rain or hail) but I’d have to set an alarm to remind me to do so every week and then I’d feel like somebody should have to pay me to watch this AND the commercials, which would especially feel like torture to me. Sry. Also, it would make sense that this platinum(?) blonde would be the trope-ish Dead White Girl’s mother, but she looks like JP’s mom, in this scene anyway. Also sry, just being frank here. Anyway, ask me in a month and I might think his name is Jerome Priven or something else. I’m not hooked up right. In any event, that ain’t Frisco.

0:27 Yes, it’s PA? I mean, R.R. tracks, baseball fields – I’ll buy that. Possibly a drone shot, but what if it crashed and landed on somebody? I think the suits down in LA LA LAND would have the money and feel more comfortable with a real chopper. Also, ALLSOURCER is a horrible name, but it’s one word and it was prolly easy to clear.

1:09 Oh, “Mia Tanner was murdered in her Russian Hill apartment?” It’s like the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce is writing this script, huh? At this point, I’m thinking that no, this show isn’t going to be FILMED IN FRISCO at all, which is prolly why I don’t recall any production effort here. Also, there are very few murders in Russian Hill of course, just saying.

1:28 Of course all the computing devices are from Apple and all the logos are strategically covered by hands, over and over.

1:31 Massive lens flare! I guess we’re done with Palo Alto.

1:35 A container ship parked parallel to our Bay Bridge near its Alpha Tower? No no no no no. This is a place for tourists from L.A., public art, and “street furniture” – it’s not really a working location anymore. (But from this bridge you can see some military-type cargo-type vessels berthed, in case of war.)

1:38Not Frisco.

1:42 She looks like she has Italian heritage. That’s all I’ve got. Anyway, she’ll be the #3 recurring character.

2:32 Now this could be a drone shot. Possibly reversed video. But where’s Salesforce Tower? I’ll tell you, I think Big Hero Six had an SFT. I’ll have to check.

2:37Not Frisco. An unpainted curb without cars parked on it? Maybe in Los Angeles, but not here, not these days.

2:45 The idea that the SFPD wouldn’t know what the highly distinct and quite popular Toyota Prius is is a bit laughable. Also, you can’t easily determine the specific year like this. However, there was a hit and run on Mission a while back where the SFPD pulled a screengrab and you could see that it was some kind of Lexus ES, due to the tail lights and other cues that Toyota added to allow people to see a difference between it and a Camry. Anyway, this is the kind of thing what already gets crowdsourced in a way. Like on Reddit SF, that kind of thing. Anyway, so it’s a Prius – not the C model and not the V model, just regular, but it’s been the #1 seller in the bay area for years and years, and it’s, by far, the #1 model on our roads up here, so lots of luck, Jerome / Jerry whatever your name is. Also, people who break into Russian Hill apartments to kill you don’t drive the Prius, sry, UNLESS they are UBER Lyft drivers?! Ooh, I think I’m on my way to solving this one!

3:24 Gotta say chopper shot here. Also, there are no cars on Conzelman, and no people up at the GGB overlook? Looks all funny, doesn’t look real even though it’s 99% real.

3:40Not Frisco.

Oh, it was that guy? I didn’t see it coming, but then again, I didn’t have the sound on so I don’t know what’s going on.

In conclusion, this show is so not FILMED IN SAN FRANCISCO. (It’s a lot cheaper for it, you know, because we are a high-cost place to do biz.) And with all the Photoshop hijinx, it’s won’t ever be a time capsule of Frisco 2017, the way the Streets of San Francisco is.

Man, pay me $50 a throw and I’ll watch this San Francisco show. But otherwise…

Now this kind of thing just didn’t happen back in the day. The bike thief of the 1990’s would do things proper, he’d take the trouble to first steal a Volvo car jack and then he’d carry it around all over the place hoping for the chance to jack your ride by applying force to your U-lock. Then he’d ride off.

I think I prefer the old-school thieves.

Or maybe this fellow is a stud what doesn’t need a saddle. (Actually I think I recognize him through his shoes.) Anyway, one for the ladies:

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The point is that you’d almost never see this kind of pathetic scene back in the good olde days…

There’s not a really bad seat in the house – it’s what you call intimate with even the nosebleeds placed pretty close to the stage. Here’s the view from Block B. Block A is to the right and Blocks D and E are on the other side of the stage. Note the giant oculus above the giant CGI screens.

And there’s candy, candy, candy available at the Fairyland Candy Shop:

“I was doing a scene where my ex-military boyfriend gets in a fight, and it was scripted that I just stand there … I just got involved. I pulled one actor off of another and they loved it. They said, ‘Keep doing it.’ We did it 12 times and I didn’t realize on the first take I broke my finger.”

Anyway, interest in seeing P.P. is high already, so get your tickets now if you are at all interested – there’s no need to pay the scalpers anything at this point. Und, for your convenience, starting today, you can go to a box office to get your ticks and avoid any fees. All the deets are below. Facebook, Twitter, etc.

WHAT:
Two new satellite box office locations are now open selling tickets for the U.S. premiere of a spectacular new stage production of PETER PAN. J M Barrie’s classic story is performed in the world’s first 360-degree CGI theatre set in San Francisco’s Ferry Park on the Embarcadero opposite the Ferry Building.

In addition to purchasing tickets online or over the phone, patrons can now buy tickets in person at the new PETER PAN Justin Herman Plaza Box Office located at the end of Market Street @ Steuart Street (NO service charges for tickets purchased here). The other convenient new location to purchase tickets to PETER PAN is right inside the Stockton Street entrance of Macy’s in Union Square.

PETER PAN at The threesixty° Theatre will be an iconic destination on San Francisco’s historic waterfront. The cast and audience are immersed in a CGI Neverland, so that when Peter and Wendy fly to Neverland the audience flies with them over 400 square miles of virtual London and beyond. A magical park-like setting will be created that invites patrons to enhance their entertainment experience. With refreshments available on-site, a behind-the-scenes Into Neverland tour and a free 100 Years of Peter Pan exhibit, audiences will begin the journey before the performance commences.

WHERE:
New Satellite Box offices

Justin Herman Plaza Box Office located at the end of Market Street @ Steuart Street is open daily from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
There are no service charges for tickets purchased at the Justin Herman Plaza Box Office

Macy’s Department Store in Union Square located at the Stockton Street entrance is open daily from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Online and phone TICKET INFO:
Tickets can also be purchased online at peterpantheshow.com or by calling 1-888-ppantix
(1-888-772-6849). For groups of 15 or more, please call 1-415-551-2020 or email groupsales@shnsf.com.

Ticket Prices:
Tickets for PETER PAN range in price from $30 to $85.
A $20 discount for children 12 and under is available for select performances.

Take a look for yourself to see dude just drive off the Bay Bridge due to a moment’s inattention in last night’s episode of NBC’s Trauma serial. (Do you think you’d survive after falling so far inside a Jeep Cherokee Classic? I don’t think it’d be possible, but maybe the breast implants inside the car softened the jolt or something.)

“The problem started at 9 p.m., with the previously sorta-canceled “Trauma” (1.4/3) returning from the grave as a Nielsen zombie. It hit its lowest rating yet, falling 22 percent from its fall average and 13 percent from its last original. It wouldn’t be shocking if NBC decided to quickly replace “Trauma” in the timeslot. That’s because “Trauma” tainted “L&O,” which managed a third-place 1.5/4 at 10 p.m. — down 25 percent from last week, when NBC aired a double dose of the drama from 9-11 p.m. Worse, “L&O” was actually off 6 percent from what “The Jay Leno Show” had been averaging at 10 p.m. Mondays.

“NBC — which actually did quite well last week, given the fact that it had to fill 5 hours of primetime post-Jay– does not want to see any negative Leno-to-scripted comparisons at 10 p.m. Period.”

Not saying I would or could do a better job, but maybe the whole concept of shooting this kind of old-school TV show on location on the Streets of San Francisco was a bad idea? Is that possible?

On It Goes. How much longer will this Great San Francisco Nielsen Zombie last?